ukraine key air defense systems called the s 300 that one is a high altitude area defense, missile defense. let s speak to cnn military analyst and retired air cedric . let talk about the assistance president biden promised today in response to the speech from zelenskyy. can you tell us what is in that package and what the effect will be? jim, sure. absolutely. this is a picture of the s 300 on parade the russians like to do. the basic principle here is the tube that contains the rockets right in through this area and it s a launcher. so this is called a transporter launcher and that is designed specifically for the s 300. so the specifics of the particular variety of s 300 that the ukrainians will probably be getting from slovakia is this.
the north koreans basically put up science experiments and they look to see what went wrong and they learn as much from their failures as they do from their success. and a couple of things they hav been trying to perfect. they have been trying to perfect a quick launch capability by having a missile on the back of a road mobile vehicle, not just one that could drive around on a highway but also on an offroad. they have tires and tracks that allow them to drive through forests and rough terrain. they can pop up that transporter launcher that stacks the missile straight up in the air. and in a very quick manner without having to take days to prepare they can fire off the missile. that gets their accelerated launch time much further down and much further compressed. they have been trying to perfect their solid launch capability also sort of like a solid fuel booster. it allows them to launch quickly
as laura points out, this is dangerousism. quickly before i get back to laura, misinterpreting the relationship with north korea and china? yeah i suppose. yesterday s launch it came off of a chinese transporter launcher. that is an indication that has been weaponizing the north koreans. this is indication that trump doesn t understand the relationship between beijing or piece yang i don t think. lawyer ura up to respond to ? yeah, i have to say i completely agree. the way the president chose to flippantly convey his message in a very vague terminology. i don t know a security expert with scenario is a very dangerous game. you said some of you can
an international effort at north korea. you re right. there are a lot of bad options and diplomacy is probably the best of a lot of bad options. i think we have to be realistic. the target would be a freeze on icbms on missile technology. i think nuclear is probably something that is not obtainable in the short run. but i think once again we need new actors, new players. the european union, the vatican. try to find some new levers in diplomacy that we have not tried. gordon, you were shaking your head a little there. we don t want a freeze because we don t want to accept the program as a given. that s been a basis of american policy from the very beginning. so i think what we need to do is really start to look at coercive diplomacy on the chart of the chinese. they launched it out of a chinese transporter launcher.
if it is all real, that race between north korea s capability to threaten the u.s. and the u.s. ability to get diplomatic method to roll them back becomes more urgent as the world waits to see if north korea, the next step, may be another underground nuclear test. poppy and chris. barbara, thank you very much. let s discuss the state of play. dana bash. traveling with the vice president in seoul. we have gordon chang. he is a columnist for the daily beast and david gregory. gordon, one of the pictures made your eyebrows pop up. let s see if question get it back up there. what did you see in the parade that may be a favor to the united states and not just a threat? a very large canister rolling on a very big transporter launcher.